America's Journey To War

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Another journey for the British and Americans to go to war. This is the war of hard work and discipline to win. This war was in Valley Forge Pennsylvania and this was during the winter of december 1777-1778.
Everyone had to share a hut that fitted 12 men. People were starving and no food around at all. This lasted a year in the cold winter of valley forge.
They couldn't leave without permission. Washington and his soliders surive this horrible cirumstances at Valley Forge and washington’s soldiers came to trust him very much. In document A it talked about the soldiers having a hard time in the cold winter and getting injures and

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